22Synonyms found for nation

Word Origin & History

nation c.1300, from O.Fr. nacion, from L. nationem (nom. natio) "nation, stock, race," lit. "that which has been born," from natus, pp. of nasci "be born" (Old L. gnasci; see genus). Political sense has gradually taken over from racial meaning "large group of people with common ancestry." Older sense preserved in application to N.Amer. Indian peoples (1640s). Nation-building first attested 1907 (implied in nation-builder).

Example Sentences for nation

The finest of the nation she threw into dungeons or drove into exile.

Mentioned in the sonic youth song trilogy from the album daydream nation.

Spiritual authority to me and secular to him, over the nation free and united.

Breach of trust how the warren commission failed the nation and why.

You better take it before your filthy fraudulent self is bared to the nation.

He has been published in human events, national review, the nation and rolling stone.

Both of these processes transformed a country of regionalisms into a modern nation state.

The play was rapturously received and later toured the nation.

To a man with no nation, it is not wrong to help a german spy across the desert.

The people of the entire nation could go, and he still would not return.